linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] Add support for using external dma in SDHCI

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Date:   Wed, 21 Nov 2018 17:17:12 +0530
From:   Faiz Abbas <faiz_abbas@...com>
To:     Chunyan Zhang <zhang.chunyan@...aro.org>,
        Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson@...aro.org>,
        Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@...el.com>
CC:     <linux-mmc@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>,
        Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@...com>,
        Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@...com>,
        Chunyan Zhang <zhang.lyra@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] Add support for using external dma in SDHCI

Hi Chunyan,

On 12/11/18 12:56 PM, Chunyan Zhang wrote:
> Currently the generic SDHCI code in the Linux kernel supports the SD
> standard DMA integrated into the host controller but does not have any
> support for external DMA controllers implemented using dmaengine meaning
> that custom code is needed for any systems that use a generic DMA
> controller with SDHCI which in practice means any SDHCI controller that
> doesn't have an integrated DMA controller so we should have this as a
> generic feature.
> 
> There are already a number of controller specific drivers that have dmaengine
> code, and some could use sdhci.c actually, but needed to implement mmc_ops->request()
> in their specific driver for sending command with external dma using dmaengine
> framework, with this patchset, them will take advantage of the generic support.
> TI's omap controller is the case as an example.
> 
> Any comments are very appreciated.
> 

This is great. It helps us move am335x and am43xx platforms to
sdhci-omap. What platforms have you tested this on?

Thanks,
Faiz